Alan Wake: "The Writer" is the second installment downloadable episode for the Xbox 360 exclusive Alan Wake. Remedy (makers of Max Payne) are the developers. Alan Wake is a psychological adventure game based on a writer who has a pension for writing Stephen King esque novels.
In The Writer's story, you start out trapped in Alan's nightmarish dream of turmoil, confusion and fear. So think about crawling your way out of your own subconsciousness between being awake and asleep, then you have a story and layout of The Writer. Personally, I think Remedy has done a good job on the story for Alan Wake and The Writer is no exception.
Alan Wake's dark world is full of psychological strangeness, mind altering visuals which is at its core its charm. The weird nightmarish dream level where you had to use your flashlight to activate words and create platforms was fun. Alan Wake's world isn't for everybody to enjoy, but for me, I enjoyed it.
The Writer doesn't do anything to set itself apart from Alan Wake's main story. It really doesn't need to, Alan Wake is one of the best looking Xbox 360 games I have played this year (despite not being native HD).
The sound design in The Writer evokes a creepy atmosphere when listening to the trees making noise from the wind. Zanes voice over actor did a good job voicing the dialog as well. Remedy are a top notch developer so why should Alan wake: the Writer DLC be any different? Overall, good sound.
The game play in my opinion is great. Well you ask how can running around with a flashlight and a gun while throwing flares be great game play? Believe me Remedy put allot of work into making it fun and it is. Although The Writer didn't open up any new or genius ways to use the flash light and guns this time, its still good game play none the less. Some platforming sequences in The Writer didn't need to be in there. The jumping and walking are too weird for real platforming. At times I died jumping to platforms just because of the characters limited abilities (like being able to grab etc).
Its a single player game with no multiplayer whatsoever. The DLC is short, doesn't even last three good hours. If you want to go back and collect things for achievements be my guess. But not much replayability all said and done.
Alan Wake: The Writer doesn't do much to set itself apart from The Signal DLC but it does give a satisfying ending and more Alan Wake to play albeit briefly. If your an Alan Wake fan, pick this up. If you didn't really like the main adventure, you better pass. My review rating is based on downloadable content not a full retail game!!
8/10
In The Writer's story, you start out trapped in Alan's nightmarish dream of turmoil, confusion and fear. So think about crawling your way out of your own subconsciousness between being awake and asleep, then you have a story and layout of The Writer. Personally, I think Remedy has done a good job on the story for Alan Wake and The Writer is no exception.
Alan Wake's dark world is full of psychological strangeness, mind altering visuals which is at its core its charm. The weird nightmarish dream level where you had to use your flashlight to activate words and create platforms was fun. Alan Wake's world isn't for everybody to enjoy, but for me, I enjoyed it.
The Writer doesn't do anything to set itself apart from Alan Wake's main story. It really doesn't need to, Alan Wake is one of the best looking Xbox 360 games I have played this year (despite not being native HD).
The sound design in The Writer evokes a creepy atmosphere when listening to the trees making noise from the wind. Zanes voice over actor did a good job voicing the dialog as well. Remedy are a top notch developer so why should Alan wake: the Writer DLC be any different? Overall, good sound.
The game play in my opinion is great. Well you ask how can running around with a flashlight and a gun while throwing flares be great game play? Believe me Remedy put allot of work into making it fun and it is. Although The Writer didn't open up any new or genius ways to use the flash light and guns this time, its still good game play none the less. Some platforming sequences in The Writer didn't need to be in there. The jumping and walking are too weird for real platforming. At times I died jumping to platforms just because of the characters limited abilities (like being able to grab etc).
Its a single player game with no multiplayer whatsoever. The DLC is short, doesn't even last three good hours. If you want to go back and collect things for achievements be my guess. But not much replayability all said and done.
Alan Wake: The Writer doesn't do much to set itself apart from The Signal DLC but it does give a satisfying ending and more Alan Wake to play albeit briefly. If your an Alan Wake fan, pick this up. If you didn't really like the main adventure, you better pass. My review rating is based on downloadable content not a full retail game!!
8/10
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